Posts By "Karl Miffentoff Jr"

There are certain inalienable calls that a coach with testicles has to make because that decision will define him. This decision will make Lancaster and break Gatland. Lancaster must select Tuilagi no questions asked. here is why. Jaimie Roberts is too smart not to be afraid of the power of Manu Tuilagi and Tuilagi is too dumb to realize what the end result is. It requires no thinking at all from MT. Roberts is hurt. [...]

In my travels in the USA it all happened yesterday and today. Yesterday I attended and interviewed the first victim of my The World’s Most Interesting Gentlemen. Yes, it is a takeoff on the Dos Equis beer advert but let’s face it, I am not an original thinker. I graft. Dave Martin and I met at The Underground. Can’t tell you why I can’t divulge where until I graft another idea from the chef. Bollocks!!! [...]

That’s about how I feel these days. It is incomprehensible how the RFU and the IRB have illegitimately brought the sport to the common people to her knees. The saga regarding the referees, TMO, player/club relations, number og matches…..it’s endless. The time has come for a lot of guys involved to call time on their involvement in the game. That long list includes Bernard Lapasset, Andy Robinson, Rob Andrew, Eddie Jones, Ian McGeechan but right [...]

Utterly ridiculous that the France/Ireland match could not have been decided earlier. Another grand fiasco of the IRB and its inbred brotherhood with the RFU. England were poised just enough as predicted to beat an up and coming Italy. Good on Azzurri. Bloody impossible to call for the head of A. Robinson because is he the real problem. Or is the SRFU. All who watch and listen knoew in advance that the Scottish backs were [...]

1. Ireland will run France close but the fact that one centre and one wing are 6’4″ with equal height in the backrow makes for a difficult tackling day for D’Arcy and Earls…..look for France to offload repeatedly but the Irish will tackle themselves out of the game sadly in a very tight encounter. 2. Italy will stay with England until youth, guile and execution will once again beat them in the backline…..close for 70 [...]

France seems to be the side making the most lateral changes and I think this reeks of French arrogance. It isn’t the sort of arrogance that England often exemplifies but it is arrogance nevertheless because Ireland is perceived to be weak in the backline which is true. This reality of Irish weakness is a bit of a slap in the face because I am of the personal opinion that Rougerie and Company are not all [...]

Just because what perhaps was not supposed to happen happened doesn not mean the earth is flat. When 9 of 10 trys happen through the backline and the 10th is a product of a backline type move and one is a charge down, well, it seems to me that the midfield is at the heart of it all as predicted. The easiest try was by France’s Rougerie when he ran an excellent line. The worst [...]

Good God, the Scotland A / England Saxon match has me more than a bit perplexed. I mean really. Does this spell disaster tomorrow? My word! Anywhoooooo…6N…Whew,fuck me, my poor stomach. Gernerally speaking there is parity amongst the tight five in the 6N IMHO. I am also of the opinion that the backrows are also reasonably similar. Nowhere is there vast superiority. Here is how it shapes up. The matches will be one by the [...]

I am pretty happy to say good things about Gareth Thomas and Clyde Rathbone because to come out and tell the world your personal business takes a lot of guts and some big balls. Many want to but are afraid. Really, when one thinks about it, rugby is a very closed community in terms of individuality. But there is much of both demons known well in rugby circles. I would like to think that the [...]

I think that Heyneke Meyer should have been the coach of the Springboks before even Jake White some 7 or 8 years ago. Now Jake White was poor. Pieter de Villiers worse to be sure. I am botherd by all this potential political bullshit that is certain to appear soon in South Africa. The culture of rugby in South Africa has been untouched, unchanged for some 100 years. The Afrikaaner is king. The Anglo South [...]